Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

People dont believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks dont have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things dont get better.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.